autolayout - Auto Layout constraint on CALayer IOS

Question

Hi I am developing iPhone application in which I tried to set one side border for edittext. I did this in following way:

 int borderWidth = 1;
CALayer *leftBorder = [CALayer layer];

leftBorder.borderColor = [UIColor whiteColor].CGColor;
leftBorder.borderWidth = borderWidth;

leftBorder.frame = CGRectMake(0, textField.frame.size.height - borderWidth, textField
                              .frame.size.width, borderWidth);
[textField.layer addSublayer:leftBorder];

I put some constraints on my edittext in IB so that when I rotate my device it will adjust width of text field according to that. My problem is that adjusts the width of edittext not adjusting the width of CALayer which I set for my edit text. So I think I have to put some constraints for my CALayer item as well. But I dont know how to do that. ANy one knows about this? Need Help. Thank you.

Answer 1

the whole autoresizing business is view-specific. layers don't autoresize.

what you have to do -- in code -- is to resize the layer yourself

e.g.

in a viewController you would do

- (void) viewDidLayoutSubviews {
  [super viewDidLayoutSubviews]; //if you want superclass's behaviour... 
  // resize your layers based on the view's new frame
  self.editViewBorderLayer.frame = self.editView.bounds;
}

or in a custom UIView you could use

- (void)layoutSubviews {
  [super layoutSubviews]; //if you want superclass's behaviour...  (and lay outing of children)
  // resize your layers based on the view's new frame
  layer.frame = self.bounds;
}